Hello,
this message is the first instance of the Hipster News.
We will try to give a comprehensive overview of the recent progress:
- developments,
- new and updated packages,
- current known issues,
- works-in-progress and future goals.
This will hopefully allow you to get better understanding of the current activity and give you the opportunity to provide insights and feedback.
We will also post these news to a blog entry (yet to be defined).
We will also post these news to a blog entry (yet to be defined).
There has been a lot of activity in the past weeks in oi-userland [1], summarized below: most notable being the encumbered repository.
1. Hipster encumbered repository
The encumbered repository for Hipster [2] was created to provide multimedia software which used to be part of sfe-encumbered.
As a first step ffmpeg 2.7.2 and dependencies were added.
As a first step ffmpeg 2.7.2 and dependencies were added.
You can find a list of components which ought to be added in the coming weeks, on the Wiki page [3].
Contributing new components is as easy as:
- forking + cloning the oi-userland repository,
- copying one subdirectory of components/encumbered to get started,
- modifying the Makefile and adding patches if necessary such that ‘gmake install’ succeeds,
- generating a manifest with ‘gmake sample-manifest’ and modifying it if necessary,
- creating a pull-request.
2. Summary of oi-userland activity
Additions:
- encumbered: ffmpeg 2.7.2 + libraries required by ffmpeg
- openal 1.16.0
- bullet 2.83
- inkscape 0.48.5
- Perl 5.22
Updates:
- Apache 2.4.16
- Lighttpd 1.4.36
- PHP 5.5.27, 5.4.43
- freetype 2.5.5
- libdrm 2.4.62
- nodejs 0.12.7
- several X11 components and libraries, in sync with x-s12-clone
- Boost 1.58 with MPI support
- Compiz Fusion 8.10
Deprecations:
- Apache 1.3
- MySQL 5.1
- Perl 5.10 (see Heads-up below !)
Current goals:
- add GTK3: requires atk, gobject-introspection update first
- port LibreOffice 4.4.x: warm thanks to Apostolos Syropoulos for contributing the librevenge component, any help is appreciated ! [4]
- update Pulseaudio to 6.0: in progress
- add more components to hipster-encumbered, priority being VLC and gstreamer bad/ugly codecs
3. Heads-up: Perl 5.10 deprecation
Removal of Perl 5.10 means that default illumos.sh will not work any longer and you need to add :
export PERL_VERSION="5.22"; export PERL_PKGVERS="-522"
to illumos.sh while compiling illumos-gate.
Thank you for reading us !